Are You Doing Anything To Celebrate Bloomsday?

[sandyRoe]

I might buy a kidney to fry in butter for breakfast.

Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.

[TWR]

Wash my car, help my friend by doing her garden, If I've time, come back on here.

[Baldric]

June 16th is Bloomsday, the very day in 1904 on which all the action of James Joyce's renowned novel Ulysses takes place.

[Marshwarble]

Sounds a good way to ruin a day?

[humbersloop]

I might venture some devilled kidneys for lunch

happy Bloomsday sandy ;)

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jun/15/bloomsday-fans-around-the-world-celebrating-james-joyces-ulysses

[Svejk]

You didn't celebrate Yeats's 150yrs, did you sandy?
I don't like him either. ;-)

[sandyRoe]

Would you not try a gorgonzola sarnie and a glass of burgundy? Would be more authentic.

[maggiebee]

Going to Milnathort for lunch with four friends but will definitely not be eating the innards of any animal, fish or fowl. Might have something exotic like a goat's cheese salad lol.

[sandyRoe]

I started to leaf through a book of Yeats poems. But when I came across, 'When you are old and grey and full of sleep and nodding by the fire...', I said to myself, For Funks Sake, and put it away.

[jno]

are bodily fluids better than innards, maggiebee?

[humbersloop]

would it be offally rude to decline?

[Bathsheba]

I made a lovely meal of lamb's liver, caramalised onions, mash, spring greens + gravy.....got 3 servings out of it,...2 for dinner + 1 for freezer....all with 93p of the tasty slimy offal! Was delish ;)

x x

[maggiebee]

Slightly jno, but really prefer the "bodily fluids" of the grape lol

[jno]

'snout such a bad thing, humbersloop

[1ozzy]

I wasn't going to because I'd never heard of it. But now I feel inclined to find something offal to eat.

[sandyRoe]

It was of interest to a few until the Irish Tourist Board started promoting it. So I'm not surprised that someone in the antipodes hasn't heard of it. You could have a pint of Guinness by way of celebration.

[Peter Pedant]

ugh - that quote doesnt make me want to read it

[Peter Pedant]

when Yeats was awarded the Nobel prize

for Lit I think and not physiology

he said - how much ? - - - - - now that's my man !

[1ozzy]

No Guinness available where I live Sandy, (middle of nowhere). I promise to have a few "bitters" in lieu and Lambs Fry for dinner tomorrow. Hope this will suffice ;-)

[sandyRoe]

And didn't he spend a good part of it on monkey glands hoping to restore his virility?
Because he's got no faloorum, faliddle aye oorum
He's got no faloorum, faliddle aye ay
He's got no faloorum, he's lost his ding-doorum
So maids when you're young never wed an old man

[Ric.ror]

Too much punctuation for my liking Sandy ;-))